Archdiocese of Bar
Antibaren(sis)
Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See · Latin Church · Bar, Montenegro
Ancient Latin-rite archdiocese in southern Montenegro whose status was confirmed by Pope Innocent III in 1199; its archbishops historically bore the title Primate of Serbia. It is immediately subject to the Holy See, with a new Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle in Bar consecrated in 2017.
The see
- Rank
- Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 1199
- Latin
- Antibaren(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000824
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 11,227
- Population
- 631,000
- Catholic share
- 1.8%
- Priests
- 17
- Catholics per priest
- 660
- Extent
- 13,198 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.9
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Archbishop
- Rrok Gjonlleshaj
- Born
- 10 February 1961
- Birthplace
- Velezha
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle, Bar stands in Bar, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Nadbiskupski Ordinarijat, Nadbiskupa Nikole Dobrečića 1, 85000 Bar, Crna Gora
- Telephone
- [069]320.870
- [email protected]
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].